Leadership Effectiveness Tips

Leadership EffectivenessOur mission is to optimize organizational performance by maximizing the effectiveness of leaders and leadership teams. Our philosophy is that the long-term profitability and growth of every organization is inextricably linked to the effectiveness of its leaders. Through The Power of Leadership®, leaders create a values-based environment where people perform to their full potential and maximize their contributions to the organization’s mission and vision. In support of that mission and philosophy, each month we publish Breakaway Performance – Ideas that transform the way you work — with tips to help leaders achieve leadership effectiveness. We hope you will enjoy our articles and find them valuable.

Alyssa Freas, Ph.D.
CEO & President
Executive Coaching Network, Inc.


Leadership Effectiveness: Do Your Employees Want To Unionize?

Leadership Effectiveness: Do Your Employees Want To Unionize?

Are your employees interested in unionizing? If so, how do you feel about it? Companies that initially think of fighting their workers’ desire for unionization may be well served to assess themselves, rather than fight […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Rational Onboarding

Leadership Effectiveness: Rational Onboarding

Onboarding a new team member while ensuring team performance requires following a good plan. Successful onboarding is a critical success factor for the business—in other words, intention, planning, candid dialogue, involvement of the team, and […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Are Your Employees Empowered to Give Top-Notch Customer Service?

Leadership Effectiveness: Are Your Employees Empowered to Give Top-Notch Customer Service?

Empowering your front line to make just-in-time decisions on customers’ behalf will transform your business. Last month, we told the story of a delicate vase that was shipped from Italy to the United States and […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Do Your Policies Alienate Customers

Leadership Effectiveness: Do Your Policies Alienate Customers

Recently, a traveling executive, “Anne,” had a piece of artwork shipped to her home in the U.S. from Italy—when it arrived, Anne was still abroad. She first attempted to change the delivery address with the […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Functional Dysfunction

Leadership Effectiveness: Functional Dysfunction

We could spend all day talking about functional dysfunction in organizations. I know you have seen it—ragged tempers, leaders who take credit for other people’s work, leaders who don’t do their jobs for one reason […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Easing the Pressure of Layoffs

Leadership Effectiveness: Easing the Pressure of Layoffs

We are seeing more and more layoffs lately. For examples, see the articles – “Facebook-parent Meta planning fresh layoffs, to impact thousands” (The Economic Times, February 23, 2023) or “Tech layoffs in 2023 are feeding a […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Genuine Listening

Leadership Effectiveness: Genuine Listening

Because upward feedback is such an integral part of our work, it is always painful to hear about catastrophes that leave behind them a trail of unheeded warnings. We see in our work how much […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: A More Democratic Management Style

Leadership Effectiveness: A More Democratic Management Style

By now, you have probably heard that Elon Musk gave his Twitter employees an ultimatum—commit to the “extremely hardcore” corporate culture he was implementing or leave. This was further described as working “long hours at […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Politics Principles Polemics?

Leadership Effectiveness: Politics Principles Polemics?

Values alignment in an organization leads to higher performance. Alignment is about how employees’ values line up with those of the company. It’s also about how employees view leaders as living and demonstrating the agreed […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Superhuman?

Leadership Effectiveness: Superhuman?

People in leadership roles are expected to be superhuman. Leaders might conclude that from others’ behavior or comments, or they might be the ones who put that level of pressure on themselves. We believe that […]

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